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First Minecraft Convention, MineCon, Coming to Vegas November 18th-19th

PC Gamer has the first details direct from Notch himself about the first ever Minecraft convention. Registration will begin next week with tickets available to purchase and a complete listing of events. MineCon will take place at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

“For me, MineCon is about celebrating the full release of Minecraft,” said Notch via email. “I’m really looking forward to getting up on stage and pushing the button to upload the final build.” … Notch also re-iterated that the launch of the game doesn’t mean the end of development. “We’ll just go back home and keep working on Minecraft directly after MineCon, but it does represent a huge milestone where the game finally leaves beta, something we’d never been able to do without our fans, so it feels natural to celebrate it with them.”

Looks like this is also an announcement that the ‘official’ release date for Minecraft has been pushed back. Minecraft’s release date had been previously announced as 11/11/11.